\ QO Vertebrata. 



Family Gaclidae. 



Ga(lusmorrhua,L., on its food ; Cornish {^] p :M, 71 and 114; on its development; 

 Ryder ('^i ; on the spawning of fish whicb, with one exception, had been in a 

 tank in the Rothesay Aquarium for 4 years ; Ewart & Brook — Gadiculus argen- 

 teus n., Guich., is recorded for the first time as undoubtedly British, from Aber- 

 deen; Day (") p 1312 — Alolva vulgaris, Flem. Note on the young ; Mc Intosh (2) 

 p 4:^5 — Phycis mediterranea. Hypsiptera, the larval form, is described and figured 

 by Emery p 159 pl. 10 F 25. F 22-24 are referred with doubt to this genus 

 — Motella mustela, L. Notes on the development by BrOOk (^) p 298 pl. 8-10. 



Family Ophididae. 



Ptcridhmi atrum, Risso. The larval form is described and figured by Emery p 158 

 pl. 10 F 21 — Bellottia apoda, Gigl., is described and figured by Emery p 157 

 pl. 10 F 17-20. 



Bathyonus nom. nov. for Bathynectes , Günth. , preoccupied in Crustacea; catena n. 



2S0N.. 87" W., 1467 fath. p603; pectoralis n. ibid. 1430 fath. p604; Goode 



&Bean (3). 

 Fierasfer punctatus n. Mozambique ; FiSCher p 74. 

 Leptophidium cervinum n. 40° N., 69° 56' W., 76 fath. p 422, and marmoraiuni n. 



23" 10' N., 82° 20' W., 213 fath. p 423; Goode & Bean C'). 

 Neobythites n. gen. Body brotuliform . much compressed; resembling Bythites in 



general appearance p 600; yiWin. 28° N., 85° W., 111 fath. p 601; Goode 



& Bean {'). 

 Porogadus Vi. gen. Body brotuliform, much compressed ; head with numerous spi- 



nes on the interorbital space, 2 pairs on the Shoulders , one at the angle of the 



operculum, and a double series on the angle of the praeoperculum ; head with 



numerous mucous pores, as in Bathyonus; mouth large ; snout moderate, not pro- 



jecting much beyond the upper jaw, etc. ; 7nilis n. 38*^ N. 73^ W. 1168 fath. ; 



Goode & Bean (•^) p 602. 



Family Macruridae. 



Bathygadus cavernosus n. 280N, 86 — 87^ W. , 227 fath. p 598; longißlis n. ibid. 

 724 fath. p 599 ; Goode & Bean (3). 



Coryphaenoides sulcatus n. off Martinique, 472 fath. ; Goodo & Bean (3) p 596. 

 Macrurus carribaeus n. Gulf of Mexico 28^ N., 86" W., 240 fath. p 594 ; occa n. 



ibid. 335 fath. p 595 ; Goode & Bean (3). 

 Malacocephalus occidentalis n. off Granada, 132 — 164 fath.; Goode & Bean [^) 



p 597. 



B. Pleuronectoidei. 

 Family Pleuronectidae. 



Hippoglossus vulgaris. A Short biography of this species by Goode — Pleuronectes^ 

 limanda andy?est<s. Day (^) describes and figures a supposed hybrid between these 

 species; dentatus, L. = Paralichthys dentatus. auct. = P. ophryas, J. & G. ; Goode 

 & Bean (^) p 194 and 19S — Ammotretis zonatus, Macleay (renamed macleayi, 

 because zonatus is »unsuitable and misleading«), is described by Ogilby (^) p 122 

 — Aphoristia plagiusa, L., should not be applied to American specimens, which 

 differ from Linne's type, and are better named ornata, Lac; Goode & Bean (^) 



